Aside from all of the praise that BG3 gets, I haven’t played a linear story-bssed game with such length and depth for YEARS! I got to around 70 hours of game time in my first play through, and I wasn’t remotely bored, ever. For any major game to achieve this almost seemed impossible in this generation.

Am genuinely curious, because saying “it’s true” isn’t a source, nor has anyone given a source other than downvotes to OP. If sources cannot be backed up, they’re not true, especially on Lemmy.

Source?

Who is still giving this man money?

That’s great news! Perhaps we’ll see something akin to The Forgotten City from these devs, where they take their idea and really run with it with their own engine and ideas.

I switched from .local to .honk and I’m never looking back.

If they add dating elements to it, and a custom character like Forces, it’ll send the Sonic fandom into a meltdown and make Sega $1T.

In all seriousness, I’ve been writing off Sonic Team for years because they’ve been unable to put out a good game with a winning franchise like Sonic. The best game in decades is still Sonic Mania. Then, they released Sonic Frontiers, which while all over the place in terms of theme, storytelling, and mechanics, actually had solid gameplay in the open world segments! They ditched many of the on-rails aspects and removed such a heavy reliance on homing attacks to make for poor physics. They then absolutely fucked it with the mini stages that reverted to form.

I don’t wish retirement on anyone, but something really needs to happen at Sonic Team to bring the franchise back into winning ways. At this point it’s close to being like Pokémon in terms of mediocrity, gaslighting, and general toxicity. There IS the ability to make a good Sonic game, and the ability to return the series to its roots without gimmicks or throwing whatever they can at the wall to see what will stick. I’m all for a Sonic RPG, but at this point I wonder if it’s for the good of the series or because Sonic Team just wants to slap Sonic’s face on something else…

Metro is owned by the Daily Mail Group, which is why they’re so shit. It’s an output for news-esque shitposting.

That’s not fair. The switch is a great console for indie games.

Obviously, so is the Steam Deck, but that doesn’t discount the Switch for having a solid library of games outside of the usual Nintendo shite.

If I were Microsoft, I would consider speaking to Sony or Nintendo about running the live aspect of their console. Both have had serious issues with their services, and it’s where the money is for a software company like Microsoft - especially with the better hardware people from Microsoft going elsewhere.

Get Sega back into the console game, and we might see some more innovation.

If it looks anything like this I’ll be there at the first screening.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxav9Jj7R68&cbrd=1

The Metaverse was always a distraction from its involvement in Cambridge Analytica, and the questions raised around privacy and election interference/influence. It was never going to be a thing, and anyone that didn’t have their head up their arse could’ve told you that.

Zuck isn’t an idiot, but he knew many others were.

Given that Starfield has been considered a bit “meh” by many, you have to wonder where Bethesda go from here. NakeyJakey hit the nail on the head with many of his criticisms of Bethesda, and show aside you have to wonder what kind of state ES6 (assuming it’s their next game) will be in. Since we don’t even have a name, it’s probably 3-4 years away, and their engine will feel close to 20 years outdated by then - especially if they continue down the path of adding bloat to their core mechanics.

For Todd Howard, I wonder how long he intends/needs to stay at Bethesda post-acquisition. Most of the press for the Fallout show has been positive, but there’s been a lot of snark directed at the press of Todd Howard being a visionary, or Fallout being one of the greatest games of all time.

It feels like the next 4-5 years will be critical for them, especially with more critical eyes on their products.

I heard they wanted to film the wasteland parts of the Fallout show in Stoke, but they cancelled those plans when they got there and realised they’d have to spend millions on improvements.

He had put out a long line of duds, but was still considered an accomplished actor. King Richard is probably an outlier as a critically acclaimed role for him, but even after a decade of mostly crap he’s still been getting the work.

Given the response from Chris Rock to the slap, that might all be over though. He’s still busy as a producer on Bel Air, which has been…okay? That might be his next move in his career.

Is that still accurate? Their employees handbook was legendary a decade ago, but since then there have been rumours that this isn’t the case any longer, and that there were significant problems behind the scenes.

Tech companies have rate cards for valued customers or internal use. Netflix don’t pay retail price for AWS, nor do Amazon subsidiaries.

Source: Work there, and have worked at companies with yearly defined rate cards. If Twitch are paying retail price, they’re being mugged.

I’ve regrettably only heard of Podman in passing. At work we use docker containers with kubernetes, is this something we could easily transition to without friction?

Fucking hell, he’s been with them for close to 20 years, basically half of his working life. He’s been there through a lot of shit too, and basically kept The Escapist going through setbacks, cuts, and more.

I would have assumed he’d be largely untouchable there, so to make a decision that led him to resign immediately is absolutely wild.

To be fair, I quite liked Extra Punctuation, and I’ve always thought he would now be recognisable enough to either go alone, or actually be in front of a screen without animation. This could work out really well for him.